When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

Blumberg-kason, Susa

ISBN 10: 0252088182 / ISBN 13: 9780252088186

Published by 3 Fields Books, 2024

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2024. First Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9780252088186

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League
• Publisher: 3 Fields Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252088182
• ISBN 13: 9780252088186
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later, she cofounded the Chinese American Service League (CASL) to help meet the needs of the city’s isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wong’s intimate account of her own life story through the CASL’s larger history, Blumberg-Kason follows the group from its origins to its emergence as a robust social network that connects Chinatown residents to everything from daycare to immigration services to culinary education. Blumberg-Kason also traces CASL activism on issues like fair housing and violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At once intimate and broad in scope, When Friends Come from Afar uses one woman’s life to illuminate a bedrock Chicago institution.

About the Author

Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China and Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong.